American Writers: A Collection of Literary BiographiesLeonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini Scribner, 1974 - American literature The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated. |
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... heart and who spends much of his time observing people from behind a screen of leaves or window curtains ; to Old Moodie , with the patch over his eye and his false name ; to Westervelt , with his false teeth , and Zenobia , with her ...
... heart and who spends much of his time observing people from behind a screen of leaves or window curtains ; to Old Moodie , with the patch over his eye and his false name ; to Westervelt , with his false teeth , and Zenobia , with her ...
Page 539
... heart was the " House of our Savior " and his death a " ransom , " salvation . Resolved to mud , man might escape the mire of flesh ; then , mud " Flies from his hunching wings and beak - my heart , / The blue kingfisher dives on you in ...
... heart was the " House of our Savior " and his death a " ransom , " salvation . Resolved to mud , man might escape the mire of flesh ; then , mud " Flies from his hunching wings and beak - my heart , / The blue kingfisher dives on you in ...
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... Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ( 1968 ) . Against the physical afflictions of her last decade , Mrs. McCullers responded with ad- mirable gallantry and spirit . A heart attack , breast cancer , paralysis , pneumonia , and a bone - crushing ...
... Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ( 1968 ) . Against the physical afflictions of her last decade , Mrs. McCullers responded with ad- mirable gallantry and spirit . A heart attack , breast cancer , paralysis , pneumonia , and a bone - crushing ...
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